DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-91,345

CHAMPION CHARTER SALES & SERVICE
INCLUDING WORKERS REPORTING WAGES UNDER GUNDLACH CHAMPION,
INC.
HIBBING, MINNESOTA

Certification Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, as
amended ("Act"), 19 U.S.C. § 2273, the Department of Labor
herein presents the results of an investigation regarding
certification of eligibility to apply for worker adjustment
assistance.
The group eligibility requirements for workers of a firm
under Section 222(b) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(b), can be
satisfied if the following criteria are met:
(1) a significant number or proportion of the workers in
the workers' firm or an appropriate subdivision of the firm
have become totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially separated;

(2) the workers' firm is a Supplier or Downstream Producer
to a firm that employed a group of workers who received a
certification of eligibility under Section 222(a) of the
Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a), and such supply or production is
related to the article or service that was the basis for
such certification; and

(3) either
(A) the workers' firm is a supplier and the component
parts it supplied to the firm described in paragraph
(2) accounted for at least 20 percent of the
production or sales of the workers' firm;
or
(B) a loss of business by the workers' firm with the
firm described in paragraph (2) contributed
importantly to the workers' separation or threat of
separation.

Section 222(c) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(c), defines the
term "Supplier" as "a firm that produces and supplies directly
to another firm component parts for articles, or services used
in the production of articles or in the supply of services, as
the case may be, that were the basis for a certification of
eligibility under subsection (a) [of Section 222 of the Act] of
a group of workers employed by such other firm."
The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on January 15, 2016 by the state workforce office on
behalf of workers of Champion Charter Sales & Service,
including workers reporting wages under Gundlach Champion,
Inc., Hibbing, Minnesota, hereafter referred to as "Champion
Charter". The workers' firm is engaged in activities related to
the supply of servicing, fabricating, repairing, rebuilding,
and core exchange of mining and non-mining equipment. Workers
are not separately identifiable by the service supplied.
During the course of the investigation, information was
collected from the workers' firm.
Section 222(b)(1) has been met because a significant
number or proportion of the workers in such workers' firm have
become totally or partially separated, or are threatened to
become totally or partially separated.
Section 222(b)(2) has been met because Champion Charter is
a Supplier to a firm that employed a group of workers who
received a certification of eligibility under Section 222(a) of
the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a), and such supply is related to the
finished article that was the basis for such certification.
Section 222(b)(3)(B) has been met because the loss of
business by Champion Charter with the firm that employed a
certified worker group contributed importantly to worker
separations at Champion Charter.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Champion Charter
Sales & Service, including workers reporting wages under
Gundlach Champion, Inc., Hibbing, Minnesota, who are engaged in
activities related to the supply of servicing, fabricating,
repairing, rebuilding, and core exchange of mining and non-
mining equipment, meet the worker group certification criteria
under Section 222(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a). In
accordance with Section 223 of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2273, I make
the following certification:

"All workers of Champion Charter Sales & Service, including
workers reporting wages under Gundlach Champion, Inc.,
Hibbing, Minnesota, who became totally or partially separated
from employment on or after January 14, 2015 through two years
from the date of certification, and all workers in the group
threatened with total or partial separation from employment on
the date of certification through two years from the date of
certification, are eligible to apply for adjustment assistance
under Chapter 2 of Title II of the Trade Act of 1974, as
amended."
Signed in Washington, D.C. this 29th day of April 2016.
/s/Jessica R. Webster
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JESSICA R. WEBSTER
Certifying Officer, Office of
Trade Adjustment Assistance